Dalton was walking her dog on a bridge at Barefoot Landing, a shopping complex, when the dog stopped to have a stare down with the alligator. Seconds of stillness pass until the gator makes its move, plunging its wide-open jaws through the fence and toward the dog.

Thankfully, the dog moved just as fast, narrowly avoiding catastrophe.

“The fact that I just caught this on video!” Dalton said in her Facebook post. “Don’t mind my screaming it scared me.”

The fact that I just caught this on video! 🐊 don’t mind my screaming it scared me 😂
Posted by Tee Dalton on Wednesday, August 8, 2018

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